Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
THIS month the Forestry Commission celebrates its centenary.
After the destruction and mass armament production of the first world war the country needed tons and tons of timber, for building, for pit props and 100 other jobs.
To provide such timber, the new commission bought large amounts of former agricultural land, eventually becoming the largest landowner in Britain.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance


